Classic Animation

[csmolko]

Inkyblott, we have Watership Down but haven't found The Plague Dogs....also intensely depressing and the same style of animation.

[susyhomewrecker]

inkyblott said:

No one's mentioned two of my favorite 2D classics: Watership Down and Charlotte's Web.

Oh, Charlotte's Web was one of my favorites! I loved Templeton and the song he sang... "The fair is a veritable smorgasboard, smorgasboard!" I'm pretty sure I sang that song last time I went to the fair.

I loved pigs, too. I think I wore that tape out.

[Mugsy]

Yes! Charlotte's Web. Paul Lynde was the perfect Templeton, and Debbie Reynolds as Charlotte. That's how you do celebrity voices - choose people with good voices who happen to be celebrities (or not), not choose a celebrity and then let them create a voice.

If the first thing an ad mentions about an animated movie is the names of the celebs doing the voices, I hold little hope for it.

[kore]

Does anyone remember The Mouse & His Child? The Mouse & Child were a wind-up toy that go into the world to try and become separated.

[sumire]

Yup, I once impressed a hot guy by identifying his forgotten childhood movie as The Mouse And His Child. IIRC, they wanted to be self-winding, not (or perhaps in addition to) separated.

If you liked the movie, try to find the book, a juvenile chapter book, by Russell Hoban of Frances the Badger fame.

[smockery]

kore said:

Does anyone remember The Mouse & His Child? The Mouse & Child were a wind-up toy that go into the world to try and become separated.

I didn't even realize that it had been a movie. I only ever read the book and loved it. I still have my copy.

[Mugsy]

Digging this out of the dustbin. (Going through 14 pages to find it, and looking at all those movie titles makes me realize how many movies have come and gone with nary a blip on the radar in the last year and a half.)

I guess having this thread knocked so far back shows how little classic animation is being made anymore. I really miss it; I love the beauty of the hand-drawn movies, and they don't have to be the old Disney ones.

I know Disney is working on something, I've heard it called The Frog Prince (a story I know) and The Frog Princess (which I've never heard of). I hope this is going to be done in the old-school, hand-drawn style - the same thing that, with The Little Mermaid, revived Disney in the 80s.

[kostgard]

Disney's The Princess and the Frog is in 2-D. It's gotten some notice for having the first black Disney princess. Of course, some people are also freaking out because there's also a voodoo priestess, and alligator, and apparently a Cajun firefly (but the movie is set in New Orleans so that does fit).

[kateln]

Jun 12, 2007 23:57:32 GMT -4 @susyhomewrecker said:

inkyblott said:

No one's mentioned two of my favorite 2D classics: Watership Down and Charlotte's Web.

Oh, Charlotte's Web was one of my favorites! I loved Templeton and the song he sang... "The fair is a veritable smorgasboard, smorgasboard!" I'm pretty sure I sang that song last time I went to the fair.

I loved pigs, too. I think I wore that tape out.

I love this movie. I still have it on DVD. Trying to get the nephews and niece to watch it.

For me, I grew up with The Secret of NIMH, Sleeping Beauty, and An American Tale (oh and The Great Mouse Detective)--such good stories.

[Mugsy]

Methinks you have a mouse fixation, kateln.

I have to download the latest flash version to see the Princess and the Frog Disney link, which I'll do later. Is it the classic fairy tale where a prince is cursed by being a frog and the spell will be broken if a beautiful princess kisses him? A princess comes along and becomes the frog's friend, but she just can't bring herself to kiss the ugly frog. The frog is not allowed to tell that he is actually a prince.

I think Beauty and the Beast and Cinderella are my favourite classics, although I do love all the really old Disney movies. They're just so beautiful!